Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

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address and answer any questions regarding this series on moral principles.

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Some years ago, one of the bishops of Mexico showed his integrity by forbidding any of his priests from accepting money

donated from the

drug cartels.

Now a lot of people might not understand why the Bishop would make such a policy.

After all, that drug money was going to go somewhere. Why not let it go to the church where it might be used to serve for good for once?

And after all, even if the donors were wicked people in other ways, giving money to the church is a good thing, right?

So why turn down the cartel members when they're actually trying to do something good for a change?

Well, the answer of course is that even if giving money to the church is a good thing,

there's every reason to think that the motivations, the intentions behind giving the money might have been bad.

After all, these cartel members weren't renouncing their life of violence and crime,

so they presumably were giving the money to the church to try and justify their lifestyles, to lie to themselves and convince themselves that they're

basically good people. Or even worse, they were trying to bribe the church officials not to speak out against the evil of the cartels.

One way or another, it shows us that it's not enough to look at what you are doing. You also have to

look at why you are doing it. Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name,

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespassesasses as we forgive those who trespass against us

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